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METHOD OF BANDING ENVELOPES. No. 361,548. Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

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lllllllllllllllllllll UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS, ASSIGNOR OF. ONE-HALF TO THEPRATT & WHITNEY COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,548, dated April19, 1887'.

Appiication filed January 21, 1886. Serial No. 189,296. .(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RIoHARDs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden, State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method of BandingEnvelopes and Similar Articles, of which the following isaspecification.

This invention relates to methods of putting the band on bunches ofenvelopes, cards, &c., the object being to furnish a method whereby thatresult may be attained in a more convenient Way, as hereinafter morefully set forth.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification,Figure l'is a perspective view of a device which is convenient forholding a paper tube from which to cut off the bands. Figs. 2, 3, and 4illustrate the several steps of the banding operation.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

' In carrying my improved method into effeet, the tube B, of bandmaterial, previously prepared, is placed, as in Fig. 2, on the hollowframe A, which is or may be affixed to a base,

M, or otherwise supported in some convenient way, as in Fig. 1. A bunchof envelopes, E,

is now passed or projected into the end of frame A, and thus within tubeB, asindicated by dotted lines D, Fig. 2. The band materialB,surrounding the bunch, is now or previously pushed off from the frameover the bunch, as indicated at C, Fig. 3, at which point the tube 13 isthen cut off at the end of the frame and the band N left on the bunch,which is then removed, as in Fig; 4. By this method the band may readilybe put on squarely and more closely without crimping so much as formerlythe goods banding.

It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the use of aparticular form of band-supporting device. That shown in the drawings Iconsider one of the best, as it holds the tube B sufficiently well andallowsthe band to close onto the bunch at once after being cut off.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The improved method hereindescribed of banding envelopes, consisting in projecting the end of atube of band material over the bunch of envelopes, cutting a band fromthe end of the tube surrounding the envelopes, and withdrawing thebanded bunch, substan'- tially as set forth.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

FRANK I-I. PIERPONT, CLARENCE E. BUCKLAND.

